We all had our different ways of making time pass.
I took photos.
Ingrid chatted to a friend.
Adrian ran back and forth through the studio.

Eric and Adrian playing the classical game “Guess who?”

Adrian and I went Christmas shopping in Vällingby. Lunch at McDonalds.

Somehow I keep being surprised by how sticky his hands can be after a meal. It’s should be no surprise, given how he eats.

He is no stranger to cutlery and handles them with quite adequate skill. But when given a choice, he would much rather eat with his hands – and play with his food. If one uses French fries as art and construction material, naturally one will end up with sticky hands.

On Tuesdays the kids have “mother tongue” lessons, in Estonian, together with a third Estonian kid at their school, so I pick them up from the classroom rather than from after-school care.

When life gives you dark, wet, cold winter… make your own summer.

Adrian and a friend of his made a swimming pool out of pillows on the living room floor, and then went diving and swimming in it.

(From yesterday, when Adrian had to stay home from school.)

Lego, PlusPlus, Star Wars and (fictional) fighting. Christmas.

He likes playing “thinking games” on the iPad. First we played Tiny Bang Story together. When we got to the end of it, he wanted more. Tengami was too boring – no action. Monument Valley on the other hand he played through on his own in about two evenings. Now we’re doing The Lost Circus together.

It’s been such a long time since I posted a photo of Lego-building, hasn’t it?

Two guys with their iPads. Only one of them looks like he has a lamp shining in his face…

Both Adrian and Ingrid like turning up the brightness on their screens to the max. Whenever they ask me to look at something or fix some setting or enter the App Store password, the first thing I do – before even turning the iPad to face me – is to pull down the brightness. Otherwise it feels like having a flashlight in my face.